The BLACS project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to
create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be
implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of
distributed memory platforms.

You can choose between an implementation based on MPI or PVM. This
package uses PVM.

There are packages for the shared libraries, for the static libraries
and the development files and for test programs (this one).

Most users do not need to install this package directly because it is
used as a high level driver for the communication in the ScaLAPACK packages.
Therefore, it is installed when installing ScaLAPACK. ScaLAPACK is a
parallel version of LAPACK and is used on Beowulf type clusters.

/usr/share/doc/blacs-pvm-test/copyright

This package was debianized by Philipp Frauenfelder <pfrauenf@debian.org> on
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 09:42:50 +0200
The current Debian maintainer is Muammar El Khatib <muammarelkhatib@gmail.com>
It was downloaded from: http://www.netlib.org/blacs/
Susan Blackford <susan@cs.utk.edu>:
Yes, the "legal use" of the BLACS is exactly the same as for
ScaLAPACK. Freely-available software.
Public domain or
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